Description: Documents not only the stories that Lewis and Clark offered about their road across the continent, but also the large and important stories by and about the Native peoples whose trails they followed and whose lands they described in their journals.
Brief description: James P. Ronda is H. G. Barnard Professor of Western American History at the University of Tulsa and past president of the Western History Association. Ronda is the author of many books, including Lewis and Clark Among the Indians, Beyond Lewis and Clark, and Jefferson's West.
Review Quotes: ." . . "Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark is one of a handful of books that break out of the patriotic manacles that bind the expedition's historiography . . . one of the most innovative perspectives on the expedition . . . It is among Ronda's most thoughtful and thought-provoking books. It is also his most imaginative take on the meaning of the expedition in time and across it . . . Ronda's perspective is novel, challenging and welcome."